Contact Information

Education

PhD, Michigan State University, 2013

BA, University of Nigeria, 2007

Courses Regularly Taught

HIS 143: Global Inequality and Power HIS 213: Modern Africa: Globalization and Imperialism Since 1800 HIS 218: African States and Civilizations to 1800 HIS 331: Christian and Muslim Communities in Africa HIS 403/418: Comparative Slavery: Africa, America and the Caribbean HIS 419: Readings in African History: Slavery, Imperialism, Gender/Sexuality, and Urbanization HIS 506: The North and South Atlantic Core Seminar HIS 549: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Africa

Current Research

I am working on a book entitled, “Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafra Atlantic Age,” which demonstrates how the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria made sense of, and domesticated broad changes in, the Atlantic world economy over 170-year period, through shifting local articulations of hegemonic masculinity. Bight of Biafra’s trans-Atlantic engagements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed gender identities, ushering a shift from a pre-colonial period characterized by female breadwinners and more powerful female political institutions, to a proto-colonial period of male domination.

Publications

Book

Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age [Ohio University Press, Forthcoming]